vaderd Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 Hi! iTunes 6.0.3 crashes for me when trying to open the "Preferences" menu. It just hangs and I have to force the process to quit. Playing , importing, etc works just fine. I've never tried the 6.0.2 which came with 10.4.4, so I can't say if this version had the problem too. Maybe it's because of some remaining CPUID calls or something with the AMD64? I do have SSE3 though. Anyone else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kikos Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 I have an AMD64 and nvidia card. Same problem. I'm not sure if it's really crashing or if the contents of the preference window are simply turning up blank. Somehow I think it's the latter because when I ran iTunes for the first time, most of the windows that should have had text were blank, but I could push the "ok" button to proceed with setup. *EDIT* Actually, it's not crashing because you can press the "Esc" key on your keyboard to exit the menu. Something else is the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Quit iTunes Trash com.apple.iTunes.plist and com.apple.ituneshelper.plist and restart iTunes(their in your home folder /library/preference). That usually solves any weird application quirks for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kikos Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Quit iTunes Trash com.apple.iTunes.plist and com.apple.ituneshelper.plist and restart iTunes(their in your home folder /library/preference). That usually solves any weird application quirks for me. What does trashing those files actually do? Are the files recreated when I start iTunes? Also, no one else has a problem seeing the iTunes preferences menu after installing 10.4.4? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrandMasta Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 I get the same Itunes crash, AMD64 sse2.. defenetly looks like an amd incident Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 Intel system here (see sig) No crashes with iTunes Prefs. plists are config files that are created when the application run for the very first time. You may back them up and delete them if you're not sure. Might help with the issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGoog Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 same problem as well. AMD64 3000+ venice core. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eggman Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 Yeah. Definitely an AMD problem. Someone should PM Maxxuss to tell him about this problem with his driver. (I, if you're curious, have a Celeron D) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kikos Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 Yeah. Definitely an AMD problem. Someone should PM Maxxuss to tell him about this problem with his driver. (I, if you're curious, have a Celeron D) I was going to see if I could modify the preferences through AppleScript, but the iTunes dictionary in AppleScript appears blank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Careless Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 same problemo here! tried running 6.0.2 off the 10.4.3 partition, no dice... it works, but then the preferences dont come up at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kikos Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 same problemo here!tried running 6.0.2 off the 10.4.3 partition, no dice... it works, but then the preferences dont come up at all the preference window used to show up in my 10.4.3 install using 6.0.2 or 6.0.3. neither works in for me in 10.4.4. also, is applescript support missing in 6.0.2 and 6.0.3 or is it just me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a8ne Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 Same problem. After trashing itunes plist I get a blank window instead of nothing for preferences. The only ituneshelper plist was from my 10.4.3 installation. Maybe that's the problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kikos Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 Ok, I came up with a primitive work-around for setting the preferences that works, but it requires your ability to: 1. Set iTunes preferences in another installation (i.e. from 10.4.3) 2. Access to iTunes configuration files from (1). My particular reason for needing to access the iTunes preferences was when importing music from my NTFS partition, I didn't want iTunes to copy the music onto my Mac partition, which is what it is set to do by default. Instead I want it to play the music from my NTFS partition, which it now does. You need the following files from the other iTunes installation which you can get easily by using the search/find function in the GUI to search for "itunes": com.apple.iTunes.plist com.apple.iTunes.eq.plist com.apple.iTunesHelper.plist com.apple.iTunes.<your user name>s-computer.local.plist iTunes Library After you have those files somewhere you can copy them to your 10.4.4 installation, reboot into 10.4.4. In 10.4.4, overwrite the files you have by copying them to the proper directories. Rename the file with your proper username if necessary. And the iTunes Library is a file of some sort. Now you should be able to open iTunes in 10.4.4 with the settings you wanted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XP1 Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 Hi! iTunes 6.0.3 crashes for me when trying to open the "Preferences" menu. It just hangs and I have to force the process to quit. Playing , importing, etc works just fine. I've never tried the 6.0.2 which came with 10.4.4, so I can't say if this version had the problem too. Maybe it's because of some remaining CPUID calls or something with the AMD64? I do have SSE3 though. Anyone else? This happens to me all the time with SystemUIServer and the network peferences Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyliner34 Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 I cant purchase songs from the iTMS either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiebeest Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 Yeah. Definitely an AMD problem. Someone should PM Maxxuss to tell him about this problem with his driver. Mac os X, the better os that forbids to use the better cpu inside...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darky Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 got the same problem AMD64 2800+ (NewCastle) SSE2 10.4.5 installed from patched ISO iso has 1.0 AMD_Enabler patch, so i installed 1.0a AMD_Enabler which (citate) "v1.0a fixes the iTunes problems with AMD CPUs in v1.0" nothing changes, still can't get to Preference Actually opened it and changed some options but just booting up on my office Intel machine with my home HDD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theSpam Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 got the same problem AMD64 2800+ (NewCastle) SSE2 10.4.5 installed from patched ISO iso has 1.0 AMD_Enabler patch, so i installed 1.0a AMD_Enabler which (citate) "v1.0a fixes the iTunes problems with AMD CPUs in v1.0" nothing changes, still can't get to Preference Actually opened it and changed some options but just booting up on my office Intel machine with my home HDD Maybe you installed it incorrectly? I had that problem initially, but everything was fine after updating to v1.0a of AMD_Enabler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colby Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 I have an AMD proc too, and am experiencing this issue as well. Itunes is useless to me if I can't tell it not to copy my music files into it's folder. I tried the new AMD enabler patch, But that somehow screwed up finder. I can log in, but finder and my desktop don't load at all. Thes is actually the second time it did that to me. I Installed that same patch last week, and ended up having to re install my system. I didn't realize that it was the patch that screwed me untill this second time. Umm... If anyone can help me fix this without re-installing again, that would be cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemequ Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 Same problem with 6.0.4. And I'm trying to do the same thing as kikos (not copy files from my NFS server). Does anyone know what I would have to change with Pref Setter? I can't very well copy them from another install, since iTunes doesn't work so well from Linux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macprodan Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 when i had this issue,i used the AMD enabler fixed it after the 002 update, but on two occasions it caused disk util to stop working. 10.4.6 myzar V3 fixed it without any side affects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WillyDavidK Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 Did anyone ever find a resolution for this problem? I'm using the Jas dvd v10.4.6 now on an AMD 3200+ Venice and running into this issue. I trashed the files mentioned early on, but like others that just got me a huge empty screen for preferences rather than nothing at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ech Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 Did anyone ever find a resolution for this problem? I'm using the Jas dvd v10.4.6 now on an AMD 3200+ Venice and running into this issue. I trashed the files mentioned early on, but like others that just got me a huge empty screen for preferences rather than nothing at all. The AMD Enabler 1.0a patch worked for me. I used the JaS 10.4.6 like you. No problems so far. I just followed this thread. Hope it helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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